Control the virus via midi

[boborulz]

Hey Folks,

I was wondering how do I control the virus using midi messages? Does the remote section in the VC have anything to do with that? If I can, what midi messages control what?

Cheers,

Angus

[gjvti]

check this tread maybe it can help

[boborulz]

How does CC/Sysex messages work? Does it have anything to do with the remote function in VC?

[gjvti]

I'm not sure that virus supports any sysex to control it, but you can use cc messages to control the virus hardware through midi-in and also it should work feeding them into virus vst plugin from prerecorded midi track or live input external source.

[djflan]

here ya go

[gjvti]

wow, it can do lot more than I knew - tanks a lot!

[boborulz]

ok, so i have all the cc ref's now. say i want to send my virus a note on message, thats 144 60 23 (channel 1, note, velocity). so what would a cc ref message look like? as it needs to contain the cc ref and a value between 0 127 (generally) in order to control the cc parameter. thoughts?

[gjvti]

hm, what are you mixing? CCs are absolutely different type of midi data than note on messages. Note messages are triggers, but cc messages are used to shape/colour what has been triggered. Although in general both can be sent to virus either from midi controller (hardware way, midi-in) or from daw (software way, vst).

[boborulz]

im using maxmsp to control my virus, so you need to send it specific messages like the noteon one i listed above, but im having trouble controlling the parameters via messages.

[Synthjockey]

Fl Studios Midi out channel has a preset for access virus . It was probably created pre TI but it can be handy if you need some basic control. For me i'm happy using just recording tweaks through the Tis midi out.